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Hyun Ok Park

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Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, York University
E-mail: hopark@yorku.ca

Hyun Ok Park is an associate professor of sociology at York University which she joined in 2007 after receiving PhD in sociology from the University of California at Berkeley and teaching at New York University. She has written widely on global capitalism, transnational migration of Koreans, Japanese empire, democratic politics, and the issue of comparison and comparability. Hyun Ok Park is the author of Two Dreams in One Bed: Empire, Social Life, and the Origins of the North Korean Revolution in Manchuria (Duke University Press, 2005). Her latest book is The Capitalist Unconscious: From Korean Unification to Transnational Korea (Columbia University Press, 2015). She has been a member and a visitor at the Institute for Advanced for Advanced Study in Princeton, as well as a recipient of John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellowship and the American Council of Learned Societies fellowship.

(On sabbatical leave, 2015-2016)

Keywords: Korean transnational labour migration; national, human, ethnic and labour rights; South Korea

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2:00 pm Oil Palm Capital: A Feminist Pol... @ Room 108N, North House, Munk School of Global Affairs
Oil Palm Capital: A Feminist Pol... @ Room 108N, North House, Munk School of Global Affairs
May 1 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Oil Palm Capital: A Feminist Political Ecology Lens on Mobile Labour and Accelerated Dispossession in Indonesia @ Room 108N, North House, Munk School of Global Affairs | Toronto | Ontario | Canada
Guest speaker: Rebecca Elmhirst, University of Brighton, United Kingdom Rebecca Elmhirst is a leading feminist political ecologist and human geographer with two decades of research [...]
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all-day Conference on the Language of Ja...
Conference on the Language of Ja...
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In recent years, culinary linguistics, or ‘the language of food’ (Jurafsky 2014), has attracted the attention of scholars, with an increasing number of publications on [...]
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12:30 pm The Making of a Digital Archive,... @ York Lanes, Room 280N
The Making of a Digital Archive,... @ York Lanes, Room 280N
May 10 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
The Making of a Digital Archive, by a Non-Archivist: The David Wurfel fonds @ York Lanes, Room 280N
Please join us as we celebrate the completion of student-created Digital Humanities and Social Sciences (DHSS) projects that will inform an Instructor’s Guide and aligned workshops on how to bring DHSS into [...]
4:00 pm Hong Kong and the Golden Mountai... @ Eighth Floor, Robarts Library
Hong Kong and the Golden Mountai... @ Eighth Floor, Robarts Library
May 10 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Hong Kong and the Golden Mountain Dream | Elizabeth Sinn | Bernard H. K. Luk Memorial Lecture @ Eighth Floor, Robarts Library | Toronto | Ontario | Canada
Elizabeth Sinn, Hong Kong University In the latter part of the 19th Century, hundreds of thousands of Chinese left China for California, first to “seek [...]
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3:00 pm Past, Present and Future of the ... @ Room 280A, Second Floor, York Lanes
Past, Present and Future of the ... @ Room 280A, Second Floor, York Lanes
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Korea has a long and proud history of socialist/Communist political radicalism, dating back to the colonial age (1910-45) when the dual (class and national) oppression [...]
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